Top Gun

Title- Top Gun
By: Elise Adcock

     "Top Gun," stars Tom Cruise as Maverick in a movie about a group of pilots sent to Top Gun Academy to become the Top Gun. Goose and Maverick enter the academy with high hopes of becoming the Top Gun, but one final ride together changes everything. Maverick loses his best friend Goose, in an unfortunate plane accident. He struggles to find his way back to becoming a pilot again, but a woman he finds along the way talks him into trying again and not giving up on what he loves. Maverick is sent to the navy and fights along side of Iceman and completely his goal of being an army fighter jet pilot.
    I enjoyed watching this movie. All the characters: Tom Cruise, Anthony Edwards, and Kelly McGillis all did a good job with their roles. The role of Goose was one of my favorite roles throughout the movie. He was a very loyal companion to Maverick through all the bad decisions or risky ones he made. They had been best friends for as long as they could remember and Goose was the only family Maverick had left after his father disappeared in a plane that went MIA. He was a fun, adventurous guy and it was a sad moment in the movie to see him go.
     As far as the plotline goes, I found myself lost as to what the movies moral or theme was going to end up being. It seems for a moment that the plot revolves around Maverick and Goose wanting to become the Top Gun, but once Goose passes away and Maverick wants to quit flying, I didn't know where the story was going to go. Maverick's "illegal" love interest, luckily, talks him back into following  his dreams and finding a reason to go back and continue his pilot journey. To me, it seemed that the moral was to follow your dreams and always find a reason to continue. Never give up. Maverick used Goose as his reason to continue, and being a pilot was his way of honoring his lost friend
     Rate: 8.3/10